Waking up with plugged ears may be related to cerumen impaction, sudden deafness or otitis media, which need to be combined with the specific cause of the disease to give targeted treatment measures.
1. Cerumen impaction: Excessive earwax accumulates in the ear canal, causing the pressure in the ear canal to rise, leading to the symptom of waking up with a stuffed ear, accompanied by tinnitus, stuffiness in the ear, hearing loss and other symptoms. You can ask the doctor to use cerumen hook or suction to remove the earwax from the ear canal with the help of otoscopy.
2. Sudden deafness: Sudden deafness can be caused by many reasons, which may be related to staying up all night, noise stimulation, viral infections, getting up with the ear feeling blocked symptoms, and even accompanied by hearing loss symptoms. Need to use nutritional nerve, improve microcirculation, blood circulation and blood stasis medication.
3. Otitis media: during the onset of inflammation, the stimulation of the inflammation can lead to swelling of the mucous membrane of the ear canal, the amount of secretion in the ear canal increased to trigger the ear feel plugged up symptoms, accompanied by ear pain, ear wax moisture, tinnitus, hearing loss and other symptoms. Amoxicillin, ofloxacin ear drops can be used to fight infection, while with eucalyptus-pin enteric soft capsule and other mucus drainage agent for symptomatic treatment.
Getting up and feeling stuffed ears need to consult the otorhinolaryngology department, after clarifying the cause of the disease, according to the doctor’s instructions for treatment.